But another voice, higher and almost prissy, argued, We can't try again now.

He straightened up, and, with almost prissy precision, put his scalpel down beside the woman's body.

There was something prim about him, about the set of his pale, thin mouth and the careful, almost prissy, way he handled the cards.

"What clever ears you have, grandma," he said, not very successfully covering an almost prissy embarrassment with badinage.